During debate, the major divisive issue was a provision that allows tribal courts to prosecute non-Indians accused of assaulting Indian women on reservations. Republicans, arguing that subjecting non-Indians to Indian courts was unconstitutional, offered two amendments to strip that section from the bill, but both were defeated.

Raharu:I often wonder what it must feel like to be consistently on the wrong side of history.

No one knows. Liberals are always on the right side, and after a generation or so, conservatives tell themselves that they were, too. Did you know that MLK and Rosa Parks were big defenders of the 2nd Amendment?

Remember folks, if you disliked the bill because its name sounds sexist against men, you're an idiot because the content of the bill doesn't actually have anything to do with preventing violence.

But the 22 guys who voted against it based on its content are sexists who actually favor violence against women, because "just look at the name, who would vote against that?".

/ Anyhow, if we're going to make bookcover judgments about it, aren't those 22 republicans heroes for opposing Violence Against Women? Everybody else voted for Violence Against Women, so clearly they're the real sexists.

ManateeGag:IIRC, there's a chance it might help non-citizens, so fark 'em all.

Yeah, if someone beats the living crap out of their undocumented wife, or an undocumented woman is raped, she won't be immediately deported for seeking justice against someone who beats the crap out of women or a rapist. Some truly, truly devastating stuff for people who abuse women all over the country. You can't ever be too careful about not alienating the ever-important (to the GOP) rapist vote.

serial_crusher:Remember folks, if you disliked the bill because its name sounds sexist against men, you're an idiot because the content of the bill doesn't actually have anything to do with preventing violence.

But the 22 guys who voted against it based on its content are sexists who actually favor violence against women, because "just look at the name, who would vote against that?".

/ Anyhow, if we're going to make bookcover judgments about it, aren't those 22 republicans heroes for opposing Violence Against Women? Everybody else voted for Violence Against Women, so clearly they're the real sexists.

If you disliked the bill because its name sounds sexist against men, you're an idiot because the bill provides the same protections for men and women; the name is just stupid, but that's not new.

The 22 guys who voted against it aren't necessarily sexist, since at least a few of them disliked it because it extended those protections to gays. So they may just be bigoted shiat.

God dammit, every time I think maybe we're one of the last good red states, shiat like this happens.

There are no good red states. Period. Full stop.

Every representative that comes to DC from one of those backwards shiatholes winds up voting like him (or doing something equally idiotic). The only good thing I'll say is that they represent their slack jawed, inbred, yokel base perfectly.

serial_crusher:Remember folks, if you disliked the bill because its name sounds sexist against men, you're an idiot because the content of the bill doesn't actually have anything to do with preventing violence.

But the 22 guys who voted against it based on its content are sexists who actually favor violence against women, because "just look at the name, who would vote against that?".

/ Anyhow, if we're going to make bookcover judgments about it, aren't those 22 republicans heroes for opposing Violence Against Women? Everybody else voted for Violence Against Women, so clearly they're the real sexists.

What the fark am I reading here? All it's missing is a "best part................forever".

Want to know why the federal government keeps growing; keeps stepping into local school systems, local law enforcement cases, local matters usually regarded as 'states rights'? It's because local and state governments keep farking up and someone has to pick up the slack. Don't blame the plunger because you stopped up the toilet.

meat0918:wxboy: For the record, here are the 22 who voted no....Marco Rubio (R-FL)

Why would he of all people open himself up to that if he is considering a presidential run?

Lemme explain to you how this works. Either:

A) He's banking on the fact that the American public and media have the attention and memory of a dead drunk fruit fly and won't remember this, orB) He's going to say something along the lines of "I would have reauthorized the old act, which protected women from domestic violence. However, those evil libruls put in poison pill changes to give special rights to gays and illegals, so I had to vote against it, for America," hoping that the idiot/bigot vote is enough to make it worthwhile.

You would think that. But sometimes, you'd be wrong.Such as when Topeka, Kansas repealed it's laws against domestic violence because there were so many cases they couldn't afford to prosecute them.

Want to know why the federal government keeps growing; keeps stepping into local school systems, local law enforcement cases, local matters usually regarded as 'states rights'? It's because local and state governments keep farking up and someone has to pick up the slack. Don't blame the plunger because you stopped up the toilet.

That's because Kansas is the bastion of small government politics. So to bad for you women if your abused, they've got better things like ensuring that no abortion clinic can meet rules to ensure your rape baby is safe.

Emposter:meat0918: wxboy: For the record, here are the 22 who voted no....Marco Rubio (R-FL)

Why would he of all people open himself up to that if he is considering a presidential run?

Lemme explain to you how this works. Either:

A) He's banking on the fact that the American public and media have the attention and memory of a dead drunk fruit fly and won't remember this, orB) He's going to say something along the lines of "I would have reauthorized the old act, which protected women from domestic violence. However, those evil libruls put in poison pill changes to give special rights to gays and illegals, so I had to vote against it, for America," hoping that the idiot/bigot vote is enough to make it worthwhile.

Flashback to August 1995, a young Rreal is standing in the 'chapel' of one Southwest Baptist University, where the president of the college, one Roy Blunt is on his knees, swearing to god and everybody assembled that he will never -ever- go into politics again.

The fact he's a Senator know goes to show he's a lying asshat who doesn't hold to his own oaths, then again, we don't know if he got a 'revelation from god' (read: bribe) to do it

Granted, Southern Baptists have "women exist to be barefoot and pregnant and subservient t man" as part of their officical doctrine, so I'm not suprised he didn't vote for a law that'd make it a crime to "Smack a biatch"

Sad part is, I bet a good half of that same freshman class I was part of all voted for this asshole.